Monday, November 17, 2008

Humours, Passions and Tempers

Pliny has just finished her library book entitled Passions and Tempers - A History of the Humours, and returned it to the library.

How sanguine she felt to be shot of it. With melancholy she had plodded through its 300 pages reading every sentence twice. Her choler rose as she thought what else she could be reading. She decided she must be possessed of a phlegmatic temperament to read so doggedly a book she did not like.

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